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A Times History Book of the Year 2022
A TLS Book of the Year 2022
Exhilarating and whipsmart THE SUNDAY TIMES
From awardwinning writer Edward WilsonLee this is a thrilling true historical detective story set in sixteenthcentury Portugal
A History of Water follows the interconnected lives of two men across the Renaissance globe One of them an aficionado of mermen and Ethiopian culture an art collector historian and expert on watermusic returns home from witnessing the birth of the modern age to die in a mysterious incident apparently the victim of a grisly and curious murder The other a ruffian vagabond and braggart chased across the globe from Mozambique to Japan ends up as the national poet of Portugal
The stories of Damio de Gis and Lus de Cames capture the extraordinary wonders that awaited Europeans on their arrival in India and China the challenges these marvels presented to longstanding beliefs and the vast conspiracy to silence the questions these posed about the nature of history and of human life
Like all good mysteries everyone has their own version of events
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